“A lot of the businesses have cut back, and there just won't be as much. And if they're out of it, they're out of it,” said Jack Cohen, owner of S.W. Randall Toys & Gifts on Smithfield Street in downtown Pittsburgh.

Cohen told Channel 4 Action News’ Marcie Cipriani that if items like Thomas the Train wooden pieces are on children’s holiday list, parents should get them early.

Once they’re out of them, he said they won’t get more in until next year because the company was sold and more won’t be manufactured until 2013.

Cohen told Cipriani that other toy makers have also been hit by the economy.

“The manufacturers are cutting back because they don't want to be stuck with product,” he said.